A System of Shorthand in Which the Vowels Are Expressed in the Consonant Stems by Making the Latter of Different Lengths (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A System of Shorthand in Which the Vowels Are Expressed in the Consonant Stems by Making the Latter of Different Lengths The old methods of shorthand that answered the purpose of parliamentary and congressional reporting a quarter of a century ago do not meet the demands of the commercial world of the present, which requires a system easily learned, easily read and brief enough to record the most rapid utterance. The profession is crowded at the bottom with so-called stenographers who will always stay at the bottom, from their inability, with the means at their command, to rise above it, while the favored few, who, by dint of long years of patient toil, have reached the higher walks of the profession, are reaping rich rewards from their skill. In presenting this book to the public, I may say at the outset that the system of shorthand embodied in it is not a mere rehash or improvement, as is the case with nearly all others, of the old Pitman system, but that it is founded upon an entirely different theory, that it contains no word-signs, or arbitrary characters, that it is fully vocalized, rendering it as easily read as the common long-hand script, and that, from the simplicity of its construction, it is as easily learned as the common long-hand writing. In regard to speed, it has been already demonstrated beyond peradventure that it excels the most rapid of the old methods. In writing testimony, one hundred and fifty movements of the pen make one hundred words, and this fact, in connection with the very limited amount of shading, or heavy strokes, make it capable of meeting the highest requirements of speed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.